Crunchyroll Adds Tiger Mask W To Fall Simulcast Catalog

It’s going to be a slobber knocker! Tiger Mask’s making his way toward the ring, and Crunchyroll’s heading down with him!

Earlier today, Crunchyroll announced that they will stream Tiger Mask W as part of their Fall 2016 lineup. The series première on Crunchyroll’s platform on October 1 at 12:45PM Pacific (3:45PM Eastern).

Tiger Mask W will be available to audiences in the United States, Canada, South Africa, Australia, New Zealand, Central America, South America, and the Caribbean.

In July, the Tiger Mask W started streaming a 43-second teaser that outlines the general plot:

Tiger Mask W is based on Ikki Kajiwara and Naoki Tsuji’s Tiger Mask manga. Toshiaki Komura (Ultimate Muscle, Magical Twilight) is directing the series at Toei Animation, with Hisashi Kagawa (Fresh Pretty Cure, Toriko) providing character designs. Katsuhiko Chiba (Rune Soldier, Freedom) is in charge of series composition. The team of -yaiba- and Yasuharu Takanashi will score the soundtrack, while Yoshito Watanabe handles art design. Junichi Hayama will direct the show’s action scenes.

The show’s opening theme, Ike! Tiger Mask (Go! Tiger Mask), and ending theme King of the Wild will be performed by Shonan no Kaze.

The confirmed voice cast includes:

Naoto Azuma/Tiger Mask: Taku Yashiro

Takuma Fujii/Tiger the Dark: Yuichiro Umehara

Haruna Takaoka: Suzuko Mimori

Kazuchika Okada: Masakazu Morita

Hiroshi Tanahashi: Kenichi Suzumura

Yellow Devil: Bin Shimada

Ruriko Yamashina: Chiemi Chiba

Ryu Wakamatsu: Daisuke Kishio

Odin: Eiji Takemoto

Mr. X: Hidekatsu Shibata

Red Death Mask: Hiroaki Miura

Hikari Kuruma: Izumi Kitta

Kevin Anderson: Jun Fukuyama

Yuji Nagata: Masaki Terasoma

Kentaro Takaoka: Ryouichi Tanaka

Daisuke Fujii: Takeshi Kusao

Togi Makabe: Togi Makabe

Mike Rodrigues: Yasuaki Takumi

Miss X: Yu Kobayashi

The New Japan Pro-Wrestling organization is collaborating with Toei to produce Tiger Mask W. The organization’s stable of wrestlers will appear in the show under their real names. Both companies intend to stream the show globally.

Crunchyroll describes Tiger Mask W as:

The main characters are Naoto Azuma and Takuma Fujii, two young pro wrestlers. They were trainees at a small wrestling organization called Zipangu pro wrestling, but it wound up getting crushed by the wicked pro wrestling organization Tiger’s den. In retaliation, Naoto trains at the base of Mt. Fuji and becomes the new tiger mask, and Takuma meanwhile deliberately joins Tiger’s den and becomes Tiger the dark.

The legacy left behind by the original Tiger mask is inherited by a new wrestler…!

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